Currently, working group 2 has 70 members from 19 European countries and is the largest of the four working groups:
- WG1: Synthesis & Development of Ionic Liquids (C. Chiappe, T. Welton, M. Smiglak)
- WG2: Chemical & Physical Properties (M. Costa-Gomes, C. Schröder)
- WG3: Application of ILs (K. Bica, A. Riisager)
- WG4: Long-term Prospects & Scale-up Challenges (C. Silva Pereira, P. Stepnovski, A. Abbott)
Working group 2 is managed by Margarida Costa-Gomes (margarida.costa-gomes@univ-bpclermont.fr) and Christian Schröder (christian@mdy.univie.ac.at). If you have any suggestions, comments, questions concerning our working group, please do not hesitate to contact us.
1. Current member list
If you consider a person worth to include in our Working group, please write an email to us (margarida.costa-gomes@univ-bpclermont.fr or christian@mdy.univie.ac.at) or this person may directly apply for membership by writing us an email. If you want to unsubscribe from this newsletter, please let us know by writing a short email.
2. Registration at our homepage and editing researcher profile
In order to facilitate the communication between members of our working group we would like you to register at our homepage (http://www.usc.es/exil/node/2). Please create an account. Once approved, you may login at the web page. If you have succeeded, the bottom of the web page display a link called "My researcher profile". Here, you may edit your profile and confirm your membership in Working group 2 by checking the box "WG2: Chemical & Physical Properties". Please specify your research expertise and the equipment you can share. You also may ask for incoming short term mission or promote your students to have a short
term mission at another host institution.
At the moment only a small part of you have registered yet. We kindly ask those who hasn't registered to do so. Another advantage of our home page is the forum (http://www.usc.es/exil/forum/3). There you may post questions, make a call for action or simply read the news concerning our working group.
3. COST meeting in Dresden
The last COST meeting was in Dresden from Nov 2th to Nov 26th 2013. The abstracts of the talks in our session (sometimes including the complete presentations) are available at (http://www.usc.es/exil/node/12).
In our forum, we will publish our "CALLs FOR ACTION".
If you have an interesting research topic and would like to gather several groups within our network to work on it, please do not hesitate to contact us (margarida.costa-gomes@univ-bpclermont.fr, christian@mdy.univie.ac.at) and propose your suggestions. If they fit to the memorandum of understanding, we will announce your call. Official calls may get a letter of support for short term missions.
4. Short term missions
You may apply for short term missions. Detailed information can be found at our website (http://www.usc.es/exil/node/7). Deadlines are every three months, the next one should be in beginning May 2014. There have already been three rounds of short term missions. We encourage everyone to make their students apply!
5. Upcoming meetings
The next workshop co-organized by our working group is "Multiscale modelling of ionic liquids: from quantum methods to coarse-grained models" (http://www.cecam.org/workshop-1052.html). This is a CECAM workshop held in Lausanne from June 4th to June 6th and organized by our working group members Agilio Padua and Jose Nuno Canongia Lopes.
There is a training school in Strassbourg on April 24th to 26th entitled "Extraction by use of ILs".
The next EUCHEM on ionic liquids and molten salts in Tallinn on July 6th-11th has also an COST section. Details
will follow soon.
Our working group members Magdalena Bendova and Johan Jacquemin manage a special issue on ionic liquids in the "Journal of Solution Chemistry". The submission of articles is open until July 31st.
If you have any questions concerning our working group, please do not hesitate to contact us.
